
Acting
Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo
Born — Died
1910-11-02 — 1978-12-13
Place of birth
La Habana, Cuba
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo (November 2, 1910 – December 13, 1978) was a Cuban character actor best remembered for his numerous roles as eccentric businessmen. Married to actress Lupita Pallás, he was the father of famous comedian Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo.
Known for
7.6Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.
Drop the Curtain
1955
7.8Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.
El analfabeto
1961
8.0Alberto Medina is a famous composer whose car breaks down while he is on a trip. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcomed in by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for taking in tramps.
School for Tramps
1955
7.1After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.
The Innocent
1956
5.6A couple suffers marital crisis, because they cannot have children. The wife harbors a long kept secret that might doom the marriage.
El secreto de mi mujer
1955
4.8Honeymooner has trouble adapting to the idea of consummating her marriage.
Estoy casado, ja, ja
1962
Film credits
1970s · 5 titles
7.8This funny Mexican film tell the tale of a family who will do anything to get rid of the rich old lady who sits at the head of the clan. All the hilarious members want a piece of the very lucrative inheritance money. What they don't know, however, is that grandma has left all of the money to her trusty dog.
Fear Doesn't Ride a Donkey
1973
7.2María Nicolasa decides to dedicate her life to the faith and enter a convent as a novice. However, her impulsive nature, unmistakable naivety, and unconventional methods immediately disrupt the nuns' rigid routine. Upon learning of the serious financial troubles threatening the local orphanage, the amusing novice does not hesitate to get involved in all sorts of zany situations, confronting thieves, loan sharks, and authorities alike to protect the orphans and keep her order's mission afloat.
La madrecita
1974
4.4A failed marriage takes in a young niece while the wife tries to take away her inheritance.
Mi amorcito de Suecia
1974
5.8Three girls from different social classes are forced to take that first step into adulthood that leads them to live fun adventures and also unfortunate events.
El primer paso... de la mujer
1974
5.5Underqualified doofus tries to run a medical clinic.
The Moderate Doctor
1971
1960s · 27 titles
7.8Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.
El analfabeto
1961
4.8Honeymooner has trouble adapting to the idea of consummating her marriage.
Estoy casado, ja, ja
1962
6.0A family has their daughter marry a dying man in order to get an inheritance, but get into trouble when the man survives his illness.
On the dead the crowns
1961
No synopsis available yet.
Los secretos del sexo débil
1962
5.4Joselito lives with his grandmother in a fishing village. His father went to America long ago to make a fortune. One day, the boy decides to travel there to meet him. He takes courage and embarks on a fragile boat and miraculously is saved at sea by a vessel that leads him to Mexico where he meets Tom Thumb, a little newsboy who lives many adventures and helps him in the search.
Adventures of Joselito and Tom Thumb
1960
6.1Casimiro, night watchman at a wax museum of horrors, is even more sleepy than his usual laziness makes him - because his boss, the Professor, is secretly draining blood from him while he dozes to use in experiments in raising the dead. These haven't worked so far, and the bodies have been waxened and placed on display in the museum to cover his crimes. His big chance seems to come, however, when he learns that the mummified body of a modern man has been found in an Egyptian sarcophagus. The professor and his two henchmen steal the body and take it back to his lab - where the experiment flops again.
House of Terror
1960
6.0Venezuelan guy and Mexican rancher get competitive toward each other -- mostly over "the girl".
Dos gallos en palenque
1960
A whore house is transformed into a decent household by a respectable man.
La casa de las muchachas
1969
6.3Roberto is tired of his life as an office worker in Mexico City, so he moves to Acapulco to try his luck as a "Latin lover".
Un Latin lover en Acapulco
1967
In his eagerness, to be movie extras, Tin Tan and his carnal Marcelo police get into trouble, among other entanglements.
Una estrella y dos estrellados
1960
6.5Called to the home of a scientist to deal with a simple electrical problem, bumbling electrician Bartolo finds himself aboard a rocket headed for the moon!
Conqueror of the Moon
1960
5.8Two cabdrivers accidentally get caught up in criminal/gang activity.
Veinticuatro horas de vida
1969
6.0A 1968 film.
Báñame mi amor
1968
6.0Young woman and her godfather make up a story about her past in order to trick a suitor into marrying her. Then she becomes a musical comedy star and Mexican Revolution.
Los amores de Marieta (los fabulosos 20s)
1964
5.8A busfull of tourists arrives in Acapulco; each passenger has his/her little chunk of drama or comedy.
Vacaciones en Acapulco
1961
Seemingly at random, a hobo dude attaches himself to an upper-middle-class family and starts influencing them for the better in their day-to-day activities
Que hombre tan sin embargo
1967
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Esta noche si
1968
A musical comedy about a group of pretty girls who meet in Mexico and decide to break into showbiz and make a pact and promise not to get involved with men. But they all are in love with different guys and that complicates things.
Póker de reinas
1960
8.0All-star ranchera fest, rom-com style. Four charros, four eligible young ladies.
Escuela para solteras
1965
6.4No synopsis available yet.
La cigüeña distraída
1966
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Mujeres engañadas
1961
Three Black Angels (Spanish: Tres angelitos negros) is a 1960 Mexican comedy film directed by Fernando Cortés and starring Miguel Aceves Mejía, Yolanda Varela and Pedro Vargas.
Three Black Angels
1960
5.3Unmarried opera singer has a baby, and her friends convince her to pass it off as the grandchild of a wealthy old lady.
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
1966
7.6Tin Tan interfered in a bank robbery, then got arrested when the perp.s escaped. Crooks and police are both after him...
Rebelde Sin Casa
1960
5.7Comical crises in the household of a newlywed couple.
Amorcito corazón
1961
5.5Rosa Blanca is a Spanish singer and dancer hired for a show in Mexico. She travels with her twin sister, Blanca, but goes undercover as a surprise in the show. The twins also use their resemblance to confuse Herman, a young Mexican-Rosa Blanca's love, and also live moments of tension when receiving a death threat.
Dos gemelas estupendas
1968
5.5A comic movie that involves a guy who sees a kid in his house who escaped from his wealthy grandfather's mansion.
El gran pillo
1960
1950s · 28 titles
7.6Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.
Drop the Curtain
1955
8.0Alberto Medina is a famous composer whose car breaks down while he is on a trip. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcomed in by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for taking in tramps.
School for Tramps
1955
7.1After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.
The Innocent
1956
5.6A couple suffers marital crisis, because they cannot have children. The wife harbors a long kept secret that might doom the marriage.
El secreto de mi mujer
1955
5.4Champion diver on a Uni swim team trains for the Olympics and contends with his buffoonish room-mate.
¡Paso a la juventud..!
1958
4.6Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window.
Historia de un abrigo de mink
1955
6.8Chón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search of his friend Manny, a millionaire philanthropist, who helps him but makes him adopt four children from his orphanage.
El que con niños se acuesta...
1959
6.0A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.
The King of México
1956
6.2Diagnosed with a "Cleopatra complex", a married woman named Cora believes she is a femme fatale and invites three suitors to her vacation home.
Mi mujer necesita marido
1959
6.0The rigid professor Germán, president of the League of Honor and Modesty, hates statues of naked women, but the spirit of his ancestor Casanova leads him to episodes of debauchery and conquest. Married to the rigid Severa, he becomes a corrupt mayor. Only the moralistic Rosa will be able to free him from these strange influences to improve his life and that of the town.
3 Lessons of Love
1959
5.9After a long absence, a man returns to his village and recounts all his adventures with a touch of nostalgia.
The Adventures of Pito Pérez
1957
5.9A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...
The Body Snatcher
1957
4.1Wicked girl uses nude modeling as a way to seduce a wealthy painter into marriage, while still trying to keep an artschool stud piece on the side.
The Force of Desire
1955
5.8A man facing bankruptcy and ruin rehearses a couple of scenarios relating to suicide, until his family convinces him he's worth more alive than dead.
The Man That Pleases Me
1958
6.7Mexican feature film
New faces
1956
5.7María dreams of going to the capital to study piano and begins exchanging letters with Alberto, a composer. He takes advantage of the situation by sending his family away so he can deceive María and make her fall in love with him.
La vida tiene tres días
1955
6.7Sometimes parents make the mistake of loving one child more than the others. Don José places blind trust in his son Pepe, who turns out to be the one committing the most serious faults within the family, while Raymundo is the one who pays for them. Remake of Cuando los hijos se van (1941).
Every Child a Cross to Bear
1957
6.2Professional gambler is getting old and jaded; his friends see him becoming a bad person and try to set him on a better path.
El hombre del alazán
1959
5.0No synopsis available yet.
La mafia del crimen
1958
6.2An arrogant woman who owns a successful coffee company is abducted by the owner of some islands.
Rapto al sol
1956
5.6A quirky peeper with a telescope accidentally discovers serial-killer activity across the courtyard.
The Window Gossip
1956
Gloria sells dolls in benefit of UNICEF and is interested in putting on an international show. In a hotel in Acapulco the ranchero Javier, the Muslims Mustafa and Ali, the Brazilian Mr. Carioca and the charro José Lorenzo meet to carry out the project. Among the men there will be a series of entanglements to dispute the love of the young woman.
Acapulcan
1959
6.7Mother and child are separated during the Spanish Civil War. Believing the mother to be dead, the child is sent to a refugee orphanage in Mexico, then adopted. Meanwhile, Mama recovers from her injuries, and...
Maternidad imposible
1955
6.0Commercial artist and her fiancé go to Acapulco for a weekend, and she discovers that their engagement was a mistake.
Desnúdate, Lucrecia
1958
6.4On their anniversary, a lomg-married couple reminisce about the history of their marriage
Golden Wedding
1956
5.3International showgirl engineers a green-card marriage for herself to avoid being deported.
Bataclán mexicano
1956
6.2Dizzy society matron plucks a hobo out of the gutter to rehabilitate him.
School for Mothers-in-Law
1958
5.4Experimental drug gives the ability to foretell the future.
Una Movida Chueca
1956
